This is the most comprehensive reference collection on population in the last 40 years. It represents the first effort to assess the entire field. The chapter authors are among the leading contributors to demographic scholarship over the past four decades.

Provides a broad overview of the field of population studies Includes chapters on new topics, updated chapters and contemporary perspectives Raises awareness on causes and consequences of demographic behavior throughout the world

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Dudley L. Poston, Jr. is Professor of Sociology, and the George T. and Gladys H. Abell Professor of Liberal Arts, at Texas A&M University. He also holds the positions of Adjunct Professor of Demography at People's University, Beijing, China; Adjunct Professor of Sociology at Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, China; and Adjunct Professor of Demography at Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China.

Dr. Poston joined the faculty of Texas A&M University in 1992, and served as the Head of the Department of Sociology from 1992 to 1997. He previously served on the Rural Sociology and Sociology faculties, respectively, of Cornell University (1988-1992), and The University of Texas at Austin (1970-1988), where he was also affiliated with the Population Research Center (University of Texas) and the Population and Development Program and the East Asia Studies Program (Cornell University). He was Chair of the Department of Rural Sociology at Cornell University from 1989 to 1992, and he was Director of the Population Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin from 1981 to 1986.

His research interests include demography and human ecology, with special attention to the populations of China, Taiwan, and Korea; and human sexuality. At Texas A&M he teaches undergraduate classes in demography and graduate classes in demography, statistics, demographic methods, and the demography of sexuality. In his almost five four decades as a professor, he has chaired over 60 doctoral student committees, including over 40 at Texas A&M University. In his career as a professor since 1970, he has taught demography, statistics and sociology classes to over 4,500 undergraduate and graduate students. He has coauthored or coedited 19 books and has authored or coauthored over 320 journal articles and book chapters on various demographic and sociological topics.Dr. Poston received the Research Excellence Award from the Rural Sociological Society in 1994. In 1998 he received a Distinguished Achievement in Research Award from Texas A&M University, and in 1999 he received a Distinguished Teaching Award from the College of Liberal Arts of Texas A&M University; in 2009 he received a Distinguished Achievement Award in Graduate Student Mentoring from Texas A&M University. And in 2011 he received the Social Scientist of the Year Award from the Southwestern Social Science Association. In 1991, he received a Distinguished Alumnus of the Year Award from the University of Oregon. He was a Visiting Research Professor of Sociology at the National Taiwan University in 1987.

Dr. Poston served as President (2004-2005) of the Southwestern Social Science Association. He served (1995 through 1998) as the President of Research Committee 41 (Sociology of Population) of the International Sociological Association. He served (1995 through 1997) as President of the North American Chinese Sociologists Association. He served as President of the Southwestern Sociological Association in 1983-84. He served during 1975-1977 as the President of the Southern Demographic Association. He has been elected to membership in Alpha Kappa Delta (1964), Gamma Sigma Delta (1991), Phi Beta Delta (1993), Phi Kappa Phi (1999), and the Sociological Research Association (1984). And in 2014 he was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

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Demography is a dynamic field that is constantly evolving, which is why the 2006 edition of The Handbook of Population was such a welcome update to earlier summation prepared in 1959 by Philip Hauser and Dudley Duncan. The second edition of The Handbook is likewise a welcome addition to the literature given the rapid pace of change in demographic research today. Not only have earlier updates on new topics such as biodemography and political demography been expanded, the new edition also contains entirely new chapters on emerging issues of demographic interest such as obesity, inequality, and adoption. Editor Dudley Poston continues to provide a great service to the field by keeping demographers abreast of the latest developments in population science. (Douglas S. Massey, Princeton, USA)

The 2 nd edition of the Handbook of Population covers the major topics of the discipline of demography, including current substantive, methodological and theoretical issues of interest, as well as new and emerging topics in the field. In addition to revised, updated and extended chapters that were included in the 1 st edition, this 2 nd edition of the Handbook brings to the forefront entirely new chapters covering such major themes as children, adoption, sexuality, inequality, population psychology, rural demography, and obesity. Chapters in this Handbook will expand our knowledge of the field, and will raise awareness of the causes and the consequences of demographic behavior and events in societies throughout the world. This 2 nd edition will also serve as a reference in the field of population studies for years to come. It will generate new questions and research ideas and will positively impact the growth, development, and expansion of demography.

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Prologue; Dudley L. Poston, Jr., and Michael Micklin.- Part I. Population Structure.- Chapter 1. Age and Sex; Dudley L. Poston, Jr.- Chapter 2. Population Distribution and Suburbanization; Avery M. Guest and Susan K. Brown.- Chapter 3. Family Demography;Lynne Casper.- Chapter 4. Demography of Gender; Nancy E. Riley.- Chapter 5. Demography of Aging; Marc Garcia and Kyriakos Markides.- Chapter 6. Demography of Race and Ethnicity; Rogelio Saenz and M. Cristina Morales.- Chapter 7. Demography of Children; William P. O'Hare.- Chapter 8. Demography of Adoption; Mary Ann Davis.- Chapter 9. Demography of the Labor Force; Joachim Singelmann and Teresa A. Sullivan.- Chapter 10. Demography of Sexuality; Amanda K. Baumle.- Chapter 11. Demography of Poverty; Joachim Singelmann.- Chapter 12. Demography of Inequality; Mark Mather and Beth Jarosz.- Part II. Population Processes.- Chapter 13. Fertility; S. Philip Morgan.- Chapter 14. Infant Mortality; Bethany DeSalvo and Maria Perez Patron.- Chapter 15. Adult Mortality; Richard G. Rogers, Robert A. Hummer and Patrick M. Krueger.- Chapter 16. Internal Migration; Michael J. White and David P. Lindstrom.- Chapter 17. International Migration; Susan K. Brown and Frank D. Bean.- Chapter 18. Demography of Social Stratification; Arthur Sakamoto and Daniel A. Powers.- Part III. Population and the Social Sciences.- Chapter 19. Social Demography; David L. Brown.- Chapter 20. Population Psychology; Toni Falbo and Joseph L. Rodgers.- Chapter 21. Organizational and Corporate Demography; Glenn R. Carroll and Olga M. Khessina.- Chapter 22. Urban Demography; Mark A. Fossett.- Chapter 23. Rural Demography; Katherine J. Curtis and László J. Kulcsár.- Chapter 24. Anthropological Demography; David I. Kertzer.- Chapter 25. Economic Demography; Andrew Mason.- Chapter 26. Historical Demography; Myron Gutmann and Emily Merchant.- Chapter 27. Ecological Demography; Dudley L. Poston, Jr.- Chapter 28. Biodemography; James R. Carey and James W. Vaupel.- Chapter 29. Mathematical Demography; Kenneth C. Land, Claire Yang and Yi Zeng.- Chapter 30. Political Demography; Michael S. Teitelbaum.- Part IV. Applied Demography.- Chapter 31. Fertility Planning; John Cleland and Joseph E. Potter.- Chapter 32. Sm…